Movielogr
Marthe (1997)
Directed by Jean-Loup Hubert
Overview
This Great War drama opens in the trenches during an artillery bombardment. Receiving bayonet wounds, young Simon (Guillaume Depardieu) drops out of the action, joining other injured soldiers at a Brittany hospital. One day he meets schoolteacher Marthe (Clotilde Courau), who lives in the household of the hospital’s head doctor (Bernard Giraudeau). Soon a romance begins to develop. Cinematography by Kevin Jewison, son of director Norman Jewison.
Length 121 minutes
Actors
Clotilde Courau | Guillaume Depardieu | Bernard Giraudeau | Thérèse Liotard | Gérard Jugnot | Serge Riaboukine | Romuald Groult | Loïc Corbery | Mathias Jung | Cerise Leclerc | Bruno Slagmulder | Hervé Breuil | Kader Boukhanef | Pauline Hubert | Albert Delpy